My little miracle girl!

So, the other day back in late August the kids played on the patio. Jonah wanted to play with the marbles and he got the big box with all the plastic out. Since the kids lost like 6 marbles within 2 days I keep the marbles somewhere else and just give the each of the kids one marble to play with that they have to return to me once done playing.

While I was washing the dishes, Olivia came up with a marble tower for herself and she helped Jonah creating one for him, too.



Patiently they were waiting for me being done with the dishes so that I could hand them a marble.

How impressed and astonished was I when I let the kids put a marble up into the top slot and EVERYTHING worked! The marble hit in each tower every 'street', did not fall through anything, got into the spinner and into the 'toilet bowl' and dropped into it's little reservoir at the bottom. How can Olivia have the ability to really think about the up-and-down steps/ways, and even put the semi circles to the right and to the left of the tower so that the tower sits balanced on the table top? She just turned 5!

This kid amazes me every day!

And when playing with the balloons, Olivia painted this picture of Jonah and his 'wishi'...Look how accurate she drew the fish even Jonah was sleeping and had the fish with him in bed!
'Accurate' in terms of the hanging hook on top, the fish with whiskers, wings and a fluke, the grabbing semi circle where a heart, a square and a triangle hangs from.
And Jonah actually has 5 fingers!

Yep, that's her...my little genius!

Update on the fire in Boulder

This morning we could not see any smoke clouds or smell anything bad. I hoped that the fire stopped!

But in the afternoon I could hear and see the tank airplanes flying every 10 minutes over our house direction Boulder...means, they are still trying to fight the flames!

Eventually, in the evening, it started to rain a little bit (luckily Boulder got even more rain!) and aferwards we saw again a beautiful rainbow...hope that it's God's word to stop the fire soon!

Yesterday we could see the huge smoke cloud but we could not smell any smoke. This morning the smoke cloud drifted from north to south parallel to the mountains and with opening the windows to let cool air inside the house, we could definitely smell it!

It is so unreal!

People lost their houses to fire, barely escaped with the shirts on their body and Olivia is back into Kindergarten and having a day as ususal, just a few miles away from the destruction!

My thoughts are with the families that lost their houses...

Boulder's Forest is on FIRE

This morning we went to a playdate with Jacob, Campbell and Joanna. Her husband Alex was in Boulder for some shooting practice (it was Labor day, a holy day and everybody was off of work) and when he came back at around noon, he told us that there was a fire in one of Boulder's canyons and the big, I mean BIG cloud that we see was of the fire - in an otherwise blue sky.

And this is what we still saw in the late afternoon out of our bedroom windows

Currently no people injured, a fire truck was a victim of the fire, but all people save. They even ended up closing the emergency shelters because obviously everybody evacuated could find shelter at friend's and family's homes!

They even opened up the Longmont County Fair grounds for livestock in danger (cows, horses..) and the shelter for taking on dogs and cats...what a disaster!

http://www.kdvr.com/news/kdvr-boulder-wildfire-txt,0,5053365.story

Obviously, the fire was started by a vehicle bumping into a propane gas tank!

Olivia tries to read!!